And when I (a little while back) suggested we should look at our
priorities., I was not disagreeing with this, or even with the idea of
rainbow text on marble backrounds. But I'd like to see more work done on
user/author control of basic presentation attributes via _some_ general
mechanism, before we hack out the details for every kitchen sink feature.
If I may play devil's advocate:
I'm not an SMGL expert (and thus not familar with the prior art in the
SMGL community), so I'd personally like concrete examples of whatever
mechanisms are proposed.
I gather from some comments that some of this will involve attributes on
stuff in the HTML DTD: it sounds like some proposals also involve macro
language external to SGML, while others sound like object-oriented
extensions to SGML.
Is it time to talk about this, or do people need to refine the proposals, or
are there other things that should come first?
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Albert Lunde Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu